It may seem counterintuitive to take a mini-break in January: You've just finished the holiday rush, the post-gift-buying bills have arrived, and the cold weather makes you want to cocoon at home. However, with all those reasons in mind, January may be the ideal time to take a vacation. A break may be just the thing to get you back to your pre-holiday spirits.

It is one of the most barren and inhospitable places to live on the planet, and traveling to and within Greenland is expensive.Yet the Arctic landscape attracts thousands of visitors yearly who marvel at the astounding beauty of icebergs, glaciers and a vast ice cap.